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“Because of the relative dearth of personal and family papers . . .”https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/because-of-the-relative-dearth-of-personal-and-family-papers/
https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/because-of-the-relative-dearth-of-personal-and-family-papers/#respondTue, 26 Jan 2016 15:54:18 +0000http://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/?p=285]]>This from the Free People of Color in Louisiana resource (http://www.lib.lsu.edu/sites/all/files/sc/fpoc/collections.html), which attempts to fill in another prominent archival silence.

Worth coming back to.

]]>https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/because-of-the-relative-dearth-of-personal-and-family-papers/feed/0Kate T.Documenting HIV/AIDShttps://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/documenting-hivaids/
https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/documenting-hivaids/#respondTue, 26 Jan 2016 15:41:54 +0000http://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/?p=276]]>Again, there’s a whole book’s worth of content on this topic. Maybe someone’s even already done it. But just a note to myself to follow up on session 407 from SAA in DC in 2014:

In 2011 the world commemorated the 30th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic. Soon after archivists started hearing about the new disease, they began collecting materials chronicling how it was affecting communities and the response to it. Archives were striving to build holdings that include voices of diverse participants in the struggle to conquer the epidemic, including the GLBT community, volunteer organizations, researchers and clinicians, and local governments. Archivists from a variety of institutions discuss their HIV/AIDS archives.

Session recording should be online for free after this year’s annual meeting, if I didn’t happen to buy the recordings from that year.

]]>https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/documenting-hivaids/feed/0Kate T.Archival silences and cultural genocidehttps://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/archival-silences-and-cultural-genocide/
https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/archival-silences-and-cultural-genocide/#respondTue, 26 Jan 2016 14:56:20 +0000http://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/?p=269]]>There’s a ton of scholarship out there about the deliberate destruction of libraries and archival collections as part of a cultural genocide. Sadly, many examples. But I was reminded to make a note that this needs to be covered in the book by seeing this news story: “On the Run from the Islamic State, Iraqi Christians Are Trying to Save Their Heritage.”

“If Daesh burns down a church we can rebuild it, but the manuscripts are our history. They trace back our roots, they are part of our civilization,” he said, using the Arabic acronym for the group. “If they get destroyed, then we are lost, and our culture will be forgotten.”

Over the past few months we have been working to make publicly available some of the sound collections that the Endangered Archives Programme has funded. Two of the first collections we worked on were EAP088: The Golha radio programmes (Flowers of Persian Song and Poetry), and the three projects that make up the Syliphone record label collection from Guinea (EAP187, EAP327 and EAP608). It is with great pleasure that we can announce that these two collections are now available on BL Sounds for anyone to listen to worldwide.

The Golha radio programmes were broadcast on Iranian National Radio between 1956 and 1979 and consist of a mixture of musical pieces, poetry and literary commentary. These programmes can be listened to here. You can read more about this project in a previous guest blog by Jane Lewisohn.

]]>https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/i-love-you-endangered-archives-programme/feed/0Kate T.“Where Do Presidential Campaign Websites Go When Campaigns Die?”https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/where-do-presidential-campaign-websites-go-when-campaigns-die/
https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/where-do-presidential-campaign-websites-go-when-campaigns-die/#respondTue, 26 Jan 2016 14:31:53 +0000http://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/?p=260]]>The title speaks for itself. Another archival silences on the web example. Some sites are still there, some captured in part, some gone entirely.

It’s a long article and worth coming back to. Cites several special collections w/focus on cookbooks.

]]>https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/cookbooks-and-etiquette-books/feed/0Kate T.And then, there’s sexhttps://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/and-then-theres-sex/
https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/and-then-theres-sex/#respondMon, 25 Jan 2016 16:50:00 +0000http://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/?p=241]]>A hush may fall over the archives if you want to learn much about sex in the past, right? Again, this deserves its own chapter. (It’s going to be a big book, don’t you think?)

Here’s a fun story about a find in an antiques shop: “a photo album full of erotic imagery, from magazine clippings to postcards to early attempts at pornographic film.”

More than the subversive imagery on display, though, these images patched together a lost history of sexuality and desire, silenced under the rule of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco from 1939 to 1975, during which many graphic or dissenting images were censored or destroyed.

For 10 years, Zubiaurre treasure hunted and researched similar erotic materials, eventually building a visual history of early 20th century sexuality in Spain. The X-rated treasure trove illuminates the public emergence of feminism, gay love, cross dressing, psychoanalysis, masturbation, sex manuals and hardcore porn.

]]>https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/and-then-theres-sex/feed/0Kate T.A whole issue devoted to “The Question of Recovery: Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive”https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/a-whole-issue-devoted-to-the-question-of-recovery-slavery-freedom-and-the-archive/
https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/a-whole-issue-devoted-to-the-question-of-recovery-slavery-freedom-and-the-archive/#respondMon, 25 Jan 2016 15:14:04 +0000http://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/?p=236]]>A whole issue of the journal SocialText on “The Question of Recovery: Slavery, Freedom, and the Archive.” I expect that will yield a lot of good fodder for my topic. Table of contents here: http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/content/33/4_125.toc.pdf.

]]>https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/a-whole-issue-devoted-to-the-question-of-recovery-slavery-freedom-and-the-archive/feed/0Kate T.More of a “library silence,” reallyhttps://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/more-of-a-library-silence-really/
https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/more-of-a-library-silence-really/#respondMon, 25 Jan 2016 14:53:51 +0000http://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/?p=230]]>This is relevant to the “backlogs=silences” line of thought, but I’m noting it mostly because I like it. The Wellcome Library had a not-very-well cataloged collection of books.

For years, a project to label and fully catalogue all 55,000 books, although helpful in retrieving requested books, remained a low priority – something of a luxury. The prospect of digitisation provided the extra impetus to push this project to the top of our to-do-list. In order to digitise we needed to accurately identify and locate the books and transport them around the building to and from the digitisation suite. Once digitised the items needed to be matched to the relevant metadata (in the Library catalogue records) for online discovery.

So, in the course of getting the books ready for digitization, “195 missing books were rediscovered and an additional 1537 books we didn’t know we had were added to the Library catalogue.”

]]>https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/more-of-a-library-silence-really/feed/0Kate T.The theme for today’s articles? Grab it now.https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/the-theme-for-todays-articles-grab-it-now/
https://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/2016/01/25/the-theme-for-todays-articles-grab-it-now/#respondMon, 25 Jan 2016 14:42:58 +0000http://archivalsilences.wordpress.com/?p=221]]>This comes up frequently among my college and university archivist friends: those crazy kids today do everything online. No paper records to eventually find their way to archives. So if you want to get documentation on student activities, you better find a way to grab their online products now, before they disappear. Some archivists I know (and love) aren’t bothering to do this, and that bothers me. Here’s a case study of how NYU is doing it. (Note: I haven’t read it yet.)